Breath of Fresh Squidward

Template:Episode Breath of Fresh Squidward is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season five.

Brief summary: Squidward is electrocuted by his fence, turning him into a nice person, though annoying.

Time/Date:

• 3:47 AM
• 6:48 AM: The sun comes up

Time cards shown:

• 3 Hours Later

Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squidward Tentacles
• Patrick Star
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Tom
• Sadie
• Susie
• Sally
• Evelyn
• Harold
• Sandals
• Happy Gland

Plot

SpongeBob and Patrick are at Squidward's house to watch the sunrise with him. After Squidward finds out that SpongeBob and Patrick have snuck into his room every morning to celebrate holidays like Easter, Valentine's Day, and the Fourth of July, it is told that his brain has a storm every time Squidward sees SpongeBob. His Happy Gland is forced to find shelter in his mind's recesses. But he gets the flu due to no recess deep enough, until the two leave. Three hours later, sunrise reaches, and the camera cuts to Squidward putting an electric fence around his house to seperate the two. He tricks SpongeBob and Patrick into picnicing on a catapult, which he uses to fling them out of the fence. They surprisingly return, wanting to be catapulted again, resulting in Squidward asking them to exit resulting in him touching the doorknob of his fence, being electrocuted. It turns out that Squidward's brain storm has gone away, and a rainbow replaces it, thus making Squidward nice. This continues on for the rest of the day, and even continues through the morning, such as waking SpongeBob up for work, and flossing his teeth for him. At work, SpongeBob is surprised to see Squidward enter the kitchen, saying that he wanted to help SpongeBob work. SpongeBob promptly rejects this, and Squidward is called out front by Mr. Krabs. He gives Susie a free hat, then asks for free refills. This shocks Mr. Krabs, who either calls cheap food or back into the kitchen he goes. Squidward returns to the kitchen, even making a fresh batch of Krabby Patties, but SpongeBob rejects them, calling them "no good". He is stopped by Mr. Krabs when throwing them away, when he finds out Squidward has become a fry cook. Squidward says he wishes he could be a fry cook, SpongeBob already being a fry cook a gazillion times, but SpongeBob corrects him, saying a gazillion and six times. Mr. Krabs then barges in and shows SpongeBob a patty with a smiley face and dimples made out of ketchup. SpongeBob says Squidward made it, and Mr. Krabs loves the design and makes Squidward employee of the month, much to SpongeBob's horror. Patrick even arrives with a cake for the employee, which SpongeBob changes from his name to Squidward's.

Later, a party is thrown at Patrick's house due to Squidward being the new employee of the month. SpongeBob enrages after realizing that Squidward is pogo-dancing with Patrick, and ends up yelling at him and making him exit the party. Squidward attempts to enter his house again, but like earlier, he is electrocuted due to touching the doorknob. SpongeBob and Patrick come for SpongeBob to apologize for his harsh and rude behavior on Squidward, and ends up being electrocuted with Squidward while attempting to give him a high-five. Patrick joins too, saying "he wants to dance funny too". Squidward is returned back to his rude, snobbish ways, but SpongeBob and Patrick end up like Squidward too.

Cultural References

• The title is a reference to the famous saying, "A breath of fresh air." Which means after several bad events, a good event finally happens, which is basically fits along the episode's plot line.

Trivia/Goofs

• The part where Sadie talked to Susie was deleted.
• This is the first time Squidward has become Employee of the Month. Usually SpongeBob is the employee of the month.
• On one scene where SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward had fun together was similar on episode My Pretty Seahorse when SpongeBob and Mystery had fun.
• The bathroom for boys was spelled as Buoys.
• When the new Squidward showed SpongeBob the Krabby Patties he made SpongeBob tells him that it takes years of practice but revealed in Friend or Foe? SpongeBob made a perfect patty on his first try meaning he probably just made it up so Squidward would not work as another fry cook with him.
• The APM Music Cue "Tomfoolery Was On Some Golden Book Videos.
• The smiley face Krabby Patty is a parody of the Smiley cookies at Eat'n Park, a Denny's competitor in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
• The Nickelodeon and Directv schedule calls this episode "Breath of a Fresh Squidward".
• In this episode, we learn that SpongeBob has been Employee of the Month a gazillion and six times. A gazillion and six would make him thousands of years old and sponges can only live to be 500, so the Krusty Krab must have employee of the month awards more than once a month, but there was really only forty-four pictures of Spongebob.
• When Squidward made the Krabby Patty with dimples, he became employee of the month on the spot.
• When SpongeBob and Patrick were in Squidward's brain, his brain is a branch and Squidward's happygland is not shown in this episode, meaning Squidward's happygland must've been able to find a good place to hide.

• This is the second time that Spongebob and Patrick were Squidward. The first time was in the episode, "Opposite Day." But the difference is that Spongebob and Patrick were shocked into being Squidward after feeling the shock through Squidward. In "Opposite Day". Spongebob and Patrick only pretend to be Squidward. Spongebob is also squidward again in Gone.
• Even though it appeared that Squidward won the Employee of the Month for the first time he probably won it in the Jim era since he was also happy then.
• Because the Fourth of July is celebrated, this means Bikini Bottom is part of the United States.

APM Music Identification

• Comic Walk - #1: Squidward gradually gets mad at SpongeBob and Patrick.
• William Tell Overture - The sun rises outside Squidward's house.
• Wooden Bear - #1: Spongebob & Patrick are catapulted out of the electric fence.
• Wooden Bear - #2: Spongebob & Patrick fly back down.
• Tomfoolery - "Do they have cute seahorses there?"
• Boy Scout - Squidward comforts Spongebob.
• Spring Cleaning - Squidward annoys customers.
• Dramatic Impact 3 - "FREE?!"
• The Tip Top Polka/Cliff Polka - Mr. Krabs talks to Squidward.
• Comic Walk - #2: "Wow, SpongeBob, you've been Employee of the Month a gazillion times."
• Drama Link (d) - "Aaah! Dimples?! It was him! New Squidward did it!"
• Blaze of Brass (d) - "You're me new employee of the month!"
• Saxaboogie - #1: Party at Patrick's house.
• Fates - "Maybe you can take my job and maybe you can take my place on the 'Employee of the Month Wall of Fame' but nobody, AND I MEAN NOOO-BODY, pogo-dances with that guy BUT ME!! Now, do yourself a big fat favour and GET OUT, BUB!!"
• Saxaboogie - #2: Squidward leaves the party, depressed.